Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Activex and Vbscript [Paperback]

Rogers Cadenhead (Author), Paul Lomax (Author)

Book Description

Series: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop | Publication Date: December 1996

A guide to adding interactivity to Web pages with Microsoft's ActiveX and VBScript. The book is designed for intermediate to experienced Web authors. The CD-ROM includes all the necessary tools and materials to follow the book's examples.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The order in which ActiveX and VBScript appear in this title should be reversed: This book is a solid and detailed tutorial on VBScript and how to use it within an ActiveX browser environment. The authors ease you into the subject with simple projects that introduce VBScript, the ActiveX Control Pad (Microsoft's free visual tool for adding ActiveX controls to Web pages), and basic manipulation of HTML and browser objects through VBScript. With these preliminaries mastered, you move on to a hefty middle section that offers a thorough grounding in VBScript. Detailed chapters cover datatypes, variables, operators, events, string manipulation, functions, loops, and single- and multi-dimensional arrays. The author illustrates the discussion with examples covering many common uses for VBScript, including data validation and manipulation of HTML objects.

The final third of the book concentrates on using VBScript with controls, including the HTML Layout Control, and on working with image maps, browser objects, and cookies. Other topics include using third-party controls, converting existing Visual Basic applications to VBScript Web applications, and understanding basic interaction between VBScript and Java applets. The book is handsomely designed, clearly laid out, easy to read, and enriched with useful indexes, including a VBScript reference. The bundled CD-ROM includes all examples from the book, ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01, trial versions of several HTML authoring tools, and a grab bag of other useful tools.

From the Publisher

ActiveX is an umbrella term for a series of Microsoft products and technologies that add activity to Web pages. Visual Basic Script is an essential element of the ActiveX family. With it, animation, multimedia, sound, graphics, and interactivity can be added to a Web site. This book is a compilation of individual workshops that show the reader how to use VBScript and other ActiveX technologies within their Web site. - CD-ROM contains the entire book in HTML format, a hand-picked selection of the best ActiveX development tools, scripts, templates, backgrounds, borders, and graphics

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575212072
• ISBN-13: 978-1575212074
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,733,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good Intro to ActiveX and VBScript, but ..., September 30, 1999

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This review is from: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Activex and Vbscript (Paperback)

This book does a very good job of getting you right into ActiveX, and then slowly adds the VBScript. While the examples on the CD are well documented, I couldn't get a few of them to work (SelectedIndex) for one. However, I would recommend this book as both a good reference and usuable tool. Note that you should have a pretty good understanding of HTML. If you don't, you'll have problems, but the CD has an HTML book on it that is easily indexed. It helped me out greatly.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have even in 1999!, June 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Activex and Vbscript (Paperback)

Excellent step by step lessons on using ActiveX and VBscript. This book cleared up alot of questions I had. I just bought this book a week ago (May 1999) and I wish I had bought it a long time ago. Although this book was published in 1997, it is unbelievably useful today!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best VBScript book!, March 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Activex and Vbscript (Paperback)

I like the way Ms. Lemay wrote the book, She makes it easy for a beginner like me in VBscript easier to understand the language. It is like one of her Teach Yourself books! I highly recommend this as a good reference!